On the asteroid.
Lola clung to Gu Qingshan's chest like a fluffy pet.
"Waaah, Gu Qingshan, your story with Anna made me cry so much. I'll take care of Anna's dowry from now on."
"Waaah, Gu Qingshan, how did you survive just now? I couldn't see anything. I could only hear all the fighting, and the sound of you spitting blood."
Gu Qingshan asked curiously, "Spitting blood makes a sound?"
"Ptooey!" Lola imitated it, then continued, "I imagined you being beaten into scattered chunks of a corpse. I was so nervous, but when I came to look—you were still perfectly fine."
"—That was so unexpected!"
Gu Qingshan said, "...All right, let's talk about it later."
Holding Lola, he looked toward the skeleton.
—He didn't know how to introduce them to each other.
But since this being had brought Lola here, she must have something to tell him.
Unexpectedly, the skeleton glanced at him and offered him a cigarette first.
"Thanks, I rarely smoke," Gu Qingshan said, declining.
The skeleton lit one for herself and took a deep drag before speaking.
"Something is about to happen. I'll give you a heads-up."
"What?" Gu Qingshan asked.
The skeleton said, "I deliberately blocked the battle just now, so those watchers hiding in the void couldn't see the whole thing. But the apocalypse has left, after all. They'll soon find out the result."
"Watchers? Who?" Gu Qingshan asked in surprise.
"The powerful beings in the Six Paths of Reincarnation who are feigning death," the skeleton replied.
Gu Qingshan raised an eyebrow.
He thought of that Six Paths War Priest.
A being that powerful...
—No, that didn't add up. He'd heard those people were feigning death. How were they still watching what happened here?
As if she knew what he was thinking, the skeleton gave